Philosophy
- Hypokeimenon or subiectum, in metaphysics, the essential being of a thing
- Subject (philosophy), a being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity
- Subject-object problem, the issue of how actors or observers relate to things that are observed or acted upon
- Subject-object based metaphysics, a term for the dominant view of metaphysics in Western philosophy
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